Ming Dynasty: Starting from inheriting the legacy of Apocalypse

There are still some miscellaneous fish in the entire court hall doing something!

Zhu Youjian has been in power for a year and has become Xi to the existence of this garbage.

In terms of the human environment, it still needs to be rectified, and he must mention Yang Jingchen on this point.

Although this person is from Donglin, he has the Ming Empire in his heart and is a good official.

Now that Donglin has become a rebel concentration camp, Yang Jingchen also opposes it.

Although the influence in the court is not very large, in the position of the Hanlin Academy, the influence is quite good.

It's just that what Zhu Youzhen didn't expect was:

Cheng Jiming and Li Guopu, two cabinet ministers, jumped out early, but it was not the time to kill them and sacrifice the flag.

The two could only stay and kill the sacrificial flag while rectifying the south.

Don't think that they secretly became secret spies of the Wei Kingdom, I don't know!

Jin Yiwei and the East and West No. 2 Factory did not find out the context of the south, but his Skynet personnel had already penetrated into its core.

It's just that Jiannu was too cautious and didn't settle in Jiangnan, but on an island overseas.

The specific location of the project has not been determined, and it is obvious that the Jiannu spies have been operating in the south, and they are also guarding against the two major groups in the south to unload the mill and kill the donkey.

Wei Guogong looked calm in Jiangnan, and everything had nothing to do with him. 10 In fact, this old guy is the head of the largest Jiangnan group.

Donglin was also formed for the interests of their Jiangnan, and Xu Hongji is really capable.

In the past, Jiangnan only cooperated with the southeast to engage in foreign trade, and it was an interdependent and mutually beneficial cooperative relationship.

After all, the huge sea trade has left Jiangnan, and the southeast does not have the mouth to eat independently.

We can only divide the interests and share the cake of sea trade with the huge interest group of nobles and gentry headed by Wei Guogong in Jiangnan.

From the Nanyang sea trade, it is the channel of the southeast maritime merchants and wealthy families.

Goryeo, Wa and Jiannu took the water route established in the south of the Yangtze River.

These details and contexts, Zhu Youzhen really wants to control them.

In particular, pirates are available on both sides, and interest groups in the southeast have supported a large number of pirate gangs in this part of the South Seas for their use.

The pirate groups in the East China Sea and the Bohai Sea formed by the Jiangnan Group all have their own maritime blades in their hands.

Even the sailors of the south have become the lackeys of the southern group, and they have long been out of the jurisdiction and control of the empire.

Looking at the map of the sea and frontier drawn by Skynet, marking the distribution map of various forces, Zhu Youzhen showed a sneer on his face.

"The entire Ming Dynasty's maritime trade, there is nothing to do with the Ming Dynasty, this is a strange talk through the ages!"

In the past, the north also had its own fleet, but the Tianjin Guardian Division has now been rectified by Yuan Keli.

Those sailors and smuggling gangs who were unwilling to be deprived of their interests lost the backing of the Northern Group and went south to join the Jiangnan Group.

On the contrary, it increased the sea power of Wei Guogong in Jiangnan!

Wang Chengen, Wei Zhongxian and Xu Yingyuan, the three house slaves, were stunned after looking at the sea trade map taken out by the Son of Heaven.

It turns out that my Ming Dynasty has been controlled by Xiyi and southerners overseas, and my Ming Dynasty has no right to speak?

"It's too greedy! When the old slave was the first emperor, he only got back a little salt tax and mining tax, and he was treated as hostile by them as an enemy. "

Wei Zhongxian was not angry in his heart, compared with the sea trade, this profit is really not much, why embarrass him and the first emperor?

Wang Chengen learned a lot of economic knowledge during this time, shook his head and said:

"The entire economy of the Ming Empire is in their hands.

For a group of mercenary jackals, a little cutting of flesh makes them all feel distressed and painful. "

Xu Yingyuan is a sound worm, he is a blind person in this regard, and he has no right to speak.

I gritted my teeth with hatred in my heart, and decided to consult more with the gentlemen of the Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Science and Technology in the future.

You can't be blind, otherwise your status in the emperor's heart will not be very high.

Zhu Youzhen ignored the thoughts of the three house slaves, and said indifferently:

"In fact, all dynasties are not the biggest vested interests in maritime trade. "

None of the emperors really attached importance to the interests of maritime merchants, and they all felt that maritime trade did not have much profit, and it was a small fight.

Collecting agricultural taxes is the foundation of the country!

But in the Ming Empire, it was even worse, except for the collection of agricultural taxes, the commercial taxes were not much.

At the beginning of the founding of the country, it was better and the politics were clear, but now the land annexation is serious, and even the agricultural tax cannot be collected. (If you read a violent novel, go to Feilu Novel Network!)

During the Chengzu period, the empire's tax revenue was nearly 30 million taels or more.

But now there are only more than 4 million taels, and the newly cultivated land opened up after the population explosion is at least twice as much as in the Chengzu period.

The tax revenue is only one-third of the period of the ancestors, where did these taxes go?

The biggest drawback of the dynasty was that the gentry were exempted from paying taxes, and they deceived their superiors and subordinates, and devoured agricultural taxes year by year.

The commercial tax was extremely low, and the salt and mining taxes were no longer a matter of concern to the Empire. []

The annual salt tax can only collect two or three million taels, which is already very high.

In the Chengzu period, the salt tax was about 6 million to 8 million, and when it was high, it could exceed 10 million, and the mining tax was more than 2 million.

There are almost more than 30 million taels of national taxes.

Otherwise, how could he support Chengzu to fight in the south and the north, and he could build a big ship to go to the Western Ocean seven times?

"The Empire has fattened them and raised their greed and disregard for the interests of the Empire. "

Zhu Youzhen looked at the chart and couldn't help but sneer and disdain.

Although they have the right to speak now, that is when the empire did not pay attention, and it is really time for the empire to be fully prepared.

That was the day they fell, they wanted to collide with the empire, and they wanted to monopolize the interests of maritime trade, and they thought too beautifully.

It's just a pirate, that's because the empire doesn't pay attention to the sea frontier.

The blockade of the sea frontier and the ban on the sea were decisions made by the empire without knowing its overseas interests.

I don't know how many overseas lands have gold and silver in them, and how many rare treasures are waiting for the Ming Empire to develop.

Otherwise, just pirates, who want to curb the development of the Imperial Navy, look down on them, and underestimate his determination to develop the Navy.

Now the biggest threat to the Ming Empire is in the north, and only by solving the north can the southern and maritime problems be solved.

"You guys, your vision is still narrow, these maritime merchants and Jiangnan nobles actually know Xiyi very well for a long time.763 "

After that, Zhu Youzhen continued: "The reason why the empire did not promote the importance of maritime frontiers is because they consider their own interests. "

Emperor Jiajing tried, but unfortunately did not reverse the empire's emphasis on maritime frontiers and was defeated at the hands of the gentry of the world.

He was the third emperor to attach importance to the sea frontier, and unlike Cheng Zu and Emperor Jiajing, Emperor Jiajing saw the threat of the sea frontier to the Ming coast.

Chengzu was to exaggerate the strength of the Celestial Empire of the Ming Empire, determine the pattern of the coming dynasties of all countries, and consolidate his imperial power and legitimacy.

But Zhu Youzhen is different, Zhu Youzhen is not for the so-called Celestial Empire, he attaches importance to the maritime frontier, that is, for the interests of the sea.

If you don't eat this piece of fat meat, when Xiyi develops in the future, there will be no room for overseas development of the Ming Empire.

"The old slave must follow Your Majesty, take back the empire's maritime frontier, take the benefits it deserves, and maintain the empire's status as a great power on the sea. "

Wei Zhongxian suddenly realized that the emperor really attached great importance to naval construction and paid more attention to interests, but was not very enthusiastic about the so-called reputation.

Zhu Youzhen didn't care at all about those countries coming to the court, and he didn't even have the idea of playing the dynasty of all nations.

This kind of stupid thing that comes in less and comes out more, he won't do it!

He is not interested in engaging in this kind of system, his interest is to directly incorporate it into his own rule, or directly play economic colonial rule.

will never pretend to be a big man, and be poor.

"As the most powerful empire in the world, these interests originally belonged to the empire. "

Zhu Youzhen said proudly.